Paul Emile Diou (6 September 1855-23 August 1914) was a French Army general who served in World War I.
Biography[]
Paul Emile Diou was born in Saint-Julien-les-Metz, Moselle, France in 1855, and he chose to retain his French citizenship after his hometown was annexed by Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Diou joined the French Army in 1873 and graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1875, and he served in Tunisia, in Indochina, in the Boxer Rebellion, and in the French conquest of Morocco in 1908 before starting World War I as a brigade commander. Diou was mortally wounded at the Battle of Lorraine during the wider Battle of the Frontiers in August 1914, and he died of his wounds four days later.